Robotics for the retail industry. Its flagship product, RobAd, is an in-store marketing device designed for in-store promotions in supermarkets for CPG brands, and for retailers. Used by over twenty brands incuding Britannia. ₹1CR seed round. Founded in Oct 2020, Thrissur based. Founders: CEO Christo Varghese (APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University '20) started out of college; CTO Rahul VIncent (also APJ '20) joined after a year as Quality Assurance Engineer at Wipro; Christo Kollannur (Jyothi Engineering College '20) started out of college; Bonsto (APJ '20) joined after a year as Mechanical Design Engineer at Packmen Machineries.

Soon to launch AI-native EdTech platform for K-12 students and competitive exam prep including JEE and NEET. The company's AI companion will understand a student's level and adapts teaching in real time. ₹30CR (~$3.2M) pre-seed round led by BEENEXT, along with Eximius and Antler. Founded in April 2026, Bangalore based. Founder & CEO Ravneet (IIT Hyderabad '14) was Director of Technology at Vedantu (~four years) before co-founding FC.ONE, automating back office tasks for sports businesses, clubs and academies.

Advisory platform for homebuyers, which brings together data-driven insights and experts to help buyers shortlist, evaluate and negotiate residential purchases. Properties are evaluated keeping over 80 factors in mind, including builder credibility, construction quality, livability, project efficiency and appreciation potential. $2M seed round led by Athera, along with Sparrow and real estate developer Vakil Group. Previously raised $600K from angels and Vakil Group. Founded in Mar 2022, based in Bangalore. Founders: CEO Ashish (Visvesvaraya College of Engineering '04; Great Lakes '07) was with Godrej Properties for 12 years (heading Asset Management & Strategy, and Investments in South & NCR, while starting out in marketing and sales) and was with property consultant Anarock for two years (as director of land services); Ravi (BITS Pilani, Goa '15) was a PM at Spinny, AVP of Product & UX at Smallcase (~five years) and Head of Product and Design at Upraised (~two years).

Egocentric data collection to train robots. Collects real-world first-person video and sensor data, to be used towards building dexterous and perceptive robots. Works with home services, hotel and restaurant businesses in India. Workers wear special caps, capturing everday tasks, with over a 1,000 headsets deployed. Robotics labs and frontier AI companies face a critical botteneck, of high-quality, real-world traning data showing humans everyday work. $8.2M seed round from. Part of the YC W26 cohort. Founded in Jan 2026, SF based. The founders were students prior to this. CEO Raj, CTO Samay, and Rushil are from UC Berkeley; Shloke is from Stanford. Raj and Shloke are cousins.

Open-source usage-based billing and metering infrastructure for AI-native and API-first companies. The platform is used by AI companies to manage billing across API calls, token usage and GPU hours. This comes at a time when software pricing is rapidly shifting from seat based to usage or outcome based. Clients include Krutim, Nava, Simplismart, Segwise. $1.5M seed round led by Shashtra VC. Founded in Dec 2024, SF and Gurgaon based. The three founders are from DTU (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) '19. CEO Manish (Darden '22) was a PM at Aftershoot (18 months; photography post-production) and Magicpin (four years); Koshima was a PM at Noise (two years) and Magicpin (four years); CTO Nikhil is ex-WizCommerce (15 months) and Zomato (four years).

AI-native wealth management platform for institutional and retail clients, starting with a quant hedge fund. Plans to provide portfolio services, advisory solutions, alternative investment products. Operates as part of the FPL Group of Companies. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Aug 2024, Chennai and New York based. Founder & CEO Sai (College of Engineering, Guidy; USC Marshall '18) has been with the FPL Group (auto retail, manufacturing, financial services) who started out as an IB analyst at Merill Lynch.

AI-native intelligence OS to help enterprises transform fragmented information into actional strategic intelligence. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, from a Middle-East based family office. Founded in Jan 2025, based in Kolkota. Founders: CEO Rana (Univ. of Calcutta '97) was CEO - Retail and Franchise at QSR chain YummyJar Foods; COO Manas (Shiva Institute of Management Studies '02) was Senior Manager - HR for two large hospitals under Narayana Health (for over a decade) and was also with Tata Projects in HR.

Building “Zara for the Virtual World”, i.e. trend-led digital fashion for platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. The startup sold over 2.5 million virtual fashion units on the Roblox marketplace, generating ~$300K in GMV at a 92% gross margin, while bootstrapped. The startup’s dress-up game, GlamGirls, launched in beta on Roblox in late 2025 and has attracted over 100K paying users, with a 75% female user base and 50% of users aged over 18. While Global brands such as Walmart have partnered with the company to bring real-world products into the digital world, the company also offers a phygital D2C line that turns virtual bestsellers into real-world products. At the core of Meta Fashion’s platform is a proprietary AI-native “fast fashion” engine for digital assets, which analyzes live marketplace trends and demand signals to determine asset creation, and drive higher conversion across virtual marketplaces. UGC platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite are emerging as key ecosystems for entertainment and IP creation, particularly for a Gen Z and Gen Alpha digitally-native demographic. Roblox has grown to 150 million DAU and $6.8B in annual bookings in 2025. The platform paid out over $1.5B to creators in 2025 (up 70% YoY). As Roblox's user base ages up (with 65% of age-verified users now 13+, and 27% aged 18+) and as new monetization surfaces open up, UGC platforms are increasingly becoming home to venture-scale IP businesses. $400K pre-seed round led by Lumikai, with the participation of Big Bets, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Akshat Rathee (Nodwin), Pratham Mittal (Masters’ Union). Founded in Aug 2022, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Arjun (Masters' Union) is a 19 year old Roblox native who started Meta Fashion while in high school; Sanjay (Delhi University; NIFT) founded two startups, one of which was acquired by Paytm.

Creating a "Disney from the East". Building a production studio to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales to a worldwide audience. "Mythik plans to modernise ancient narratives using immersive technology", for e.g. Ram v. Ravan and Buddha's First Sermon. Now has a 200 member team. $5M additional round following on a $15M seed round raised in May 2025. The company's valuation crosses $50M with this round which includes investors Harsh Jain (Dream11), Rajat Gupta (McKinsey’s former Global MD), Bharti Mittal Family Office, Blume Founders Fund, Ishan Sinha (Point72). The prior $15M round was from Sakal Media Group, BITKRAFT, VC Grid, along with the founder himself, Visceral Capital, Shah Rukh Khan’s family office, the Patni family office and angels. Founded in Jul 2024, Mumbai based. Founder Jason Kothari (Wharton undergrad) was the CEO of Housing.com after Rahul Yadav, CEO of Freecharge, and CSO at Snapdeal. Prior to all of this he was CEO and then Vice Chairman of Valiant Entertainment (which has rights to the third most popular universe of superhero characters after Marvel & DC Entertainment).

Quantitative trading infrastructure for retail and institutional investors to execute quant investment strategies across equities, ETFs and mutual funds. Offers Kalpi.ai for retail investors and KalpiQuant.com for institutions (AIFs, RIAs, brokers, family offices). Retail users can create stock baskets, analyze portfolios and invest directly through broker integrations. Institutions can build, backtest, automate and execute quant strategies. Institutional grade infrastructure that typically costs hedge funds ₹1-2CR a year can be accessed through the platform. ₹3.75CR seed round. Founded in Feb 2025, Hyderabad based. Founder & CEO Ashwar (BITS Pilani '19) was a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for close to five years at Zeotap (enterprise customer data).